Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Our universities advocate fragmentation in their course systems.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.